So managed to book 2 days at the Sand Hollow State Park in Saint George, Utah - exactly at the same time as the gathering of off-road enthusiasts (the side-by-side Mad Max sds people) - so it was pretty noisy, but the surroundings were great. This is the south-west corner of Utah and as a few people told me, one of the strongholds of the polygamist section of the mormons. They were quite noticeable in Walmart.
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Clear clear water. Swam to the island on the far side. Water was the perfect temperature
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Lots of money needed to get everyone to heaven
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Next was Virgin River Canyon just outside Saint George. Went up an old abandoned dirt road to some abandoned uranium mines. Found a Honda CRV randomly parked on the side of the road with a woman inside and all her hair cut off and outside the car, together with a few pots and pans. Seriously weird...
Next was 2 nights at the CasaBlanca casino in Mesquite, Nevada. Great swim every day at 4 with a mojito (or 2). Wanted to do the casino buffet on Friday night, but by 6pm the queue to get into the buffet room was over a 100 people, so I opted for the chicken fried rice instead... did not help my gambling luck, but so be it.
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Casino RV park - see Flim looking out the window
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Caribbean music, mojito - the life
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Found a last minute campsite at Valley of Fire state park about 50 miles outside of Las Vegas for one night. Beautiful park with electricity and water hookups. Lots of Big horn sheep wandering through the campsite.
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The profile shot
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Crazy patterns in the rocks - all from very very old sand dunes
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Amazingly pitted
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The RV park between the rocks
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Give way to them with the bigger horns - specially if you are on a bicycle
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Petrified tree
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The atlatl rock
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Not sure how they got up to this level to make the drawings
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More sheep posing - not sure why they are called sheep as they have no wool
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My campsite
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Sunday afternoon checked in at the King's Row RV park - just east of the strip. $130/week which is the cheapest I have paid so far, but figured out why - east of the strip is pretty rough with a huge homeless population. Was actually quite crazy - 2 blocks from the glitz of the strip you get utter poverty. I actually felt quite unsafe cycling around there.
OBX Flim and Flam still live 🙌🏽🦩🦩 interesting how the paradoxes and polarities just manifest everywhere - Rich/poor. Hot/cold. Snow and then pools and mojitos. Safe / unsafe. Your narrative shows a very real world. Which thankfully also remains spectacular whatever we humans do!
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